Maple Syrup

Okay so I know this doesn't have anything to do with skating but I love going to the sugar bush for fresh Maple Syrup and for those of you that don't have sugar bushes and have car you should try and get there, we have a bunch around the outskirts of town and the sap is running.

Are these like the cabanes à sucre in Quebec; that is, are there meals involved?

In Vermont, you get syrup at a sugar house; maybe sugar on snow, maybe with the traditional accompaniments of dill pickles and fresh, hot doughnuts, but no meals.

In Ontario we call them Sugar Bush or Sugar Shack, same as Quebec. You would have to buy the food but yes, always pancakes and yummy maple syrup. A few also have baked brown beans with maple syrup, and either bacon or sausage. They may do the sugar on the snow, but not usually.

In Ontario we call them Sugar Bush or Sugar Shack, same as Quebec. You would have to buy the food but yes, always pancakes and yummy maple syrup. A few also have baked brown beans with maple syrup, and either bacon or sausage. They may do the sugar on the snow, but not usually.

Good to know. In VT, the sugar bush is the stand of maple trees, not the house. That's why the ski area Sugarbush is called that.